Jeebus wants me to go to sleep, but...the knitting gods do not!!

[bicentennial_baby]

I'm rocking out on the heel of this sock! Over halfway there on the heel flap!

What a dilemma! :dilemma:

Sleep at 3:20 a.m. ( no need to get up early or even a reasonable hour tomorrow) VS knit that sock.

:o

[My Good Babushka]

1. Knit that sock

and put up some pics. I'm on a knitting jag myself. It's awesome.

[bicentennial_baby]

2. I got some sleep, finally...so I can keep knitting!

I'm really in a groove... :bounce:

What are you knitting? :hi:

[My Good Babushka]

6. I am knitting

some stuff for an etsy site I hope to start soon. Baby clothes. And I want to give a portion of the money I make to a charity, but I haven't decided which one. I either want it to go to a nutrition program or a child advocacy program, but I haven't settled on one. Some of the proceeds I will have to keep, though, to get more yarn!

And I'm knitting my son some sweaters for school. He has to wear his school colors.

Yay for knitting!

[bicentennial_baby]

7. Nice! I am approaching the heel turn in 8 more rows...

I like to save my knitting for the evening, for some odd reason. Unless I'm commuting.

I'm not too worried about the heel turn, but I am wary of the gusset! (First sock that I've actually gone farther than the first inch, as dpns always gave me ladders at the joins, so I taught myself the 2-circ technique. Soooo much better!)

[My Good Babushka]

24. I made a pair of socks a few years ago

I remember it was easier than I anticipated, and they turned out okay! Good luck with your gusset.

[bicentennial_baby]

25. I just turned my first heel!!

But, Cat's directions for the gusset are incomprehensible for me...Hmmm...Off to find her YouTube vids.

:hi:

[China_cat]

30. Gussets are easy

use markers...pick up the requisite number of stitches along the left side of the heel flap (I always add 1 extra to eliminate the hole that can develop) place a marker, knit the instep stitches, place a marker of the same color, pick up the same number of stitches along the right side of the heel flap, place a different color marker, knit the heel, place another marker of the same color as the first heel marker.

Ok, that's the hard part.

Knit from the last heel marker you placed to 3 stitches before the first instep marker, k2 together, k1,
Knit the instep stitches to the next marker
K1, ssk (or sl 1, k1, psso), knit to heel stitches
Knit heel stitches

Continue in this manner until you have the same number of stitches you started out with. Continue in rounds for the foot.

[China_cat]

8. Why not knit for charity? Not the money

but the actual knits. Hospitals are in need of preemie hats, there's the afghans for Afghans program, chemo caps for both kids and adults. Most of these things will use the leftovers in your stash.

http://www.dailyknitter.com/charity.html

[My Good Babushka]

23. I have not discounted doing that, as well.

I am just in a sweater-making mood at the moment. I also wanted to generate a little scratch to feed my knitting habit, as well as make a charitable contribution.

[Aristus]

3. My wife would love you for being a knitter, like herself. And hate you for

calling Him "Jeebus". She's a "born-again", and really takes offense at stuff like that. I'm a "got-it-right-the-first-timer", so I don't get offended by it... B-)

[bicentennial_baby]

4. I'm simply channeling Homer Simpson

It's all good. :)

[Aristus]

5. Oh. OK.

:pals:

[reyd reid reed]

9. Pictures!

I need a distraction -- something to get me away from the current project(s) which are putting holes in my left index finger...literally (at least long enough for the fingertip to heal). Those tiny needles are truly needle-sharp but I can't put 'em down.

:scared:

[bicentennial_baby]

10. What are you knitting? What size needle?

0? 1? 2?

:hi:

[reyd reid reed]

19. I'm knitting

thimble/amulet bags and cell phone cases and bracelets and stuff like that.

0000 needles



and



My needles:


I've done 4 cell phone cases and about 30 bags, give or take.

http://hubpages.com/hub/HotKnitsforCoolNights

[bicentennial_baby]

20. Beautiful...and,

dangerous!!

0000? :wow:

I bow to your superior knitty skillz. :D

[reyd reid reed]

22. Nah....

pretty simple stuff, actually. It's just threading the beads takes time and patience (about 2,500-5,000 beads to a bag, depending on the rope...nearly 5,000 for a cell case) and those damn points.

Thanks, though.

:D

[ghostsofgiants]

11. Is it bad that 3:20 AM sounds early to me?

I was watching Jean-Luc Godard films at 6:00 this morning before going to sleep, haha.

[bicentennial_baby]

12. Oooh, which ones?

He's my favorite. Series.

:hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

13. Pierrot le Fou and part of Bande a Part, but I was starting to nod off, haha.

Godard rules, definitely one of my all time favourites.

[bicentennial_baby]

14. I own Bande a Part, I love that flick...

I also love A bout de Souffle...I have Vivre Sa Vie, but I've never watched it, at least not yet.

:)

[ghostsofgiants]

15. A bout de Souffle is great...

I think my two favourites of his though are Masculin Feminin and Alphaville.

[bicentennial_baby]

16. I haven't seen Masculin Feminin yet!

Alphaville is great!

Nice to see another Godard fan here. :)

[ghostsofgiants]

17. Masculin Feminin is a must see.

"This film could be called The Children of Marx and Coca-Cola."

[bicentennial_baby]

18. Who's in it?

:)

[ghostsofgiants]

21. According to Wikipedia...

Jean-Pierre Léaud
Chantal Goya
Marlène Jobert
Michel Debord

[noel711]

26. I do the same darn thing...

'specially when excited about a new project, or new technique,
and can't wait to see how it 'turns' (no pun intended) out.

but if I stay up past my normal bed time knitting,
and my eyes are more tired than my hands,
I make stupid errors and have to frog it out.


You are a better woman (?) than I.

[bicentennial_baby]

27. I had some frogging issues near the end of the evening, and...

I can't find my f'n crochet hook, so I'm left to pick up dropped stitches with my yarn needle, which sucks. I think the cat stole the hook. I'll pick up a new one when I'm in the city on Weds. Or tomorrow, b/c I'm getting annoyed. I'll buy a few, since losing the sole one is proving painful.

I knew when to quit last night, around 4 a.m...The Sl1, p **, K1 got tricky. Too tired!

Right now I'm about to start the gusset and I'm skeered! :scared:

:hi:

PS- yes, I'm a woman, although I'm always trying to recruit more men to knit :D

[noel711]

28. When you can't decipher the pattern, it's time to quit.

And bleeve me, I've had my nights...

Men knit? I dunno; most men I know have no patience.
They want what they want NOW.

[bicentennial_baby]

29. I just need to think it out...

It makes sense when I watch it on a video, but in writing, not so much. I will conquer it! :D


Hehe, there are men that knit, but yes, I can imagine many of them wouldn't be well suited to it. Patience grasshopper! ;)

[My Good Babushka]

31. before the industrial revolution

it was mostly men who knitted. They were considered master craftsmen. Women did the spinning.

Knitting lost status when women picked it up, and it's been demoted to "hobby". It's a man's world, baby.